Trolley.



PATENTED JAN. 17, 1905.

' 'G. H. TUTTLE.

TROLLBY.

APPLICATION FILED 001'. 28. 1904.

WITNESSES:

- ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES Patented J anuary 1 7, 1905.

P TE T OFFICE.

TROLLEY.

SII?ECIIFICAiI.I ON forming part of Letters Patent No. 780,388, datedJanuary 17, 1905.

' Application filed. October 26, 1904. Serial No. 230,042.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUTIE H. TUTTLE, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Shorter, in the countyof Macon and State of Alabama, have invented'a new and Improved Trolley,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in trolleys for engaging withoverhead wires of electrically-operated railway-cars, the object beingto provide a trolley of simple and novel construction that may bereadily engaged with a trolley-wire or removed therefrom and that whenin connection with a wire will be secured from accidental displacement Iwill describe a trolley embodying my invention and then point out thenovel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts inall the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a trolley embodying my invention. Fig. 2is a front view thereof, showing the position of parts when engaging thetrolley with a wire or detaching it. Fig. 3 is a front view indicatingthe position of parts when engaged with a wire, and Fig. 4 is asectional view of the trolley.

The trolley consists of two sections 1 2, which are divided transverselyof the trolleyaxis, so that the said sections may be swung intoparallelism, as indicated in Fig. 2, or

when engaged with a wire to swing at an acute angle with relation toeach other, as indicated in Figs. 3 and 4. The outer sides of thesections are flanged, asindicated, and the hub of one section isprovided with an annular bead 3 for interlocking or engaging in anannular channel 1, formed inthe hub of the other section. By thisarrangement when the trolley is engaged with a wire the sections willmeet at the upper sides of the hubsections, and their flanges will alsomeet, as indicated in Fig. 3. The flanges will be permitted to separate,however, when reaching a hanger 5, as indicated in Fig. 4.

The support or harp for the trolley consists of two members 6 7, havingoutwardlydisposed lower portions and upwardly and inwardlyinclined outerportions, the upper ends of said outer portions being provided withperforated lugs 8, throughwhich pins 9 pass, the said pins also passingthrough openings in shaft members 10 11. The harp members are mounted toswing on the trolley-pole 12, and they are limited in their swinging arecorrespondingly shaped, and attachedv rigidly to the outer ends of thesepins is a downwardly-extended lever 16, to which the trolley-cord 17 isconnected, the said trolleycord, asindicated in the drawings, beingextended over the top of the trolley-pole and down at the side oppositethe lever l6.

The shaft-sections 10 11 not only have swinging connection one withtheother, but

they have longitudinal sliding connection with each other. The section10 at its inner portion is bifurcated or provided with a slot-17, inwhich the reduced inner end 18 of the section 11 may slide, and thisreduced end 18 is provided with a longitudinal slot 19 to receive a pin20, attached to the inner end of the shaft-section 10. To permit of thefreemovements of the shaft sections, the openings through the trolleymembers at the inner end are tapered or made funnel-shaped, as indicatedat 21.

In the operation when it is desired to engage the trolley with thetrolley-wire adownward pull on the cord 17 will cause a rocking of theharp-sections and spread the trolley members into parallelism, asindicated in Fig. 2. Then when engaged with the wire and upon releasingthe cord the'pressure of the trolley members against the wire caused bythe usual spring connection between the trolley-pole and the car-roofwill cause the trolley members to swing into oblique relation to eachother, as indicated in Fig. 3.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. A trolley comprising two sections separatedtransversely of the axis, and a support for the sections whereby thesections may move into parallelism and also into oblique relation witheach other.

2. A trolley comprising two sections separated transversely of the axis,ashaft on which the sections are'mounted, the said shaft consisting oftwo members mounted to swing and having sliding relation one upon theother, and a supporting-harp for the shaft.

3. A trolley comprising two sections separated transversely of the axis,a harp consisting of two swinging sections, a shaft having its endsconnected to said harp-sections, the

said shaft consisting of two members having swinging connection and alsosliding connection, and a lever having connection with one of theshaft-sections.

4. A trolley comprising two sections separated transversely of the axis,one of said sections having an annular rib on its hub portion, and theother of said sections having an annular channel to receive said rib, aharp, and a shaft connected to said harp and extended through thetrolley-sections, the said shaft consisting of two members havingswinging and sliding connection with each other, and a lever connectedto one of the shaft members.

5. A trolley comprising two sections separated transversely of the axis,a trolley-pole, a harp consisting of two sections mounted to swing onthe pole, the said harp having perforated lugs, a shaft consisting oftwo sections extending through the trolley and having swinging andsliding connection, pins passing through the perforations of said lugsof the harp and through said shaft-sections, and a lever connected toone of the pins.

6. A trolley comprising two sections separated transversely of the axis,each section being provided with an opening through its hub portion, theopening being funnel-shaped at the inner end, a harp, a shaft havingconnection with the harp and extended through the openings of thetrolley-sections, the said shaft consisting of two members havingsliding and swinging connection, and a lever having connection with oneof the shaft-sections.

In testimony whereof I have signed. my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

GUTIE H. TUTTLE.

Witnesses:

W. P. WILLIAMS, H. O. TU'rTLE.

